This was in spite of a collision at home plate with John Stearns during a game against the Mets on June 30, 1978, in which Parker fractured his jaw and cheekbone; he wore a specially constructed facemask in order to minimize his time away from the lineup. [7]

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Dec 9, 2024 · If Willie Stargell was “Pops,” Parker was the team’s big brother in the Fam-A-Lee. And that Fam-A-Lee finally got the long-awaited good news they waited years for: Parker is now a Hall of Famer, being elected Sunday at the Winter Meetings via the Classic Era Committee.

For a time, Dave Parker was the undisputed best player in Major League Baseball. And though his career took more than a few unexpected twists, the numbers Parker left behind tell the story of a player who could do it all.

Dec 9, 2024 · DALLAS (AP) — Having waited for the call from Cooperstown for nearly three decades, Dave Parker burst into tears Sunday when he was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame along with the late Dick Allen. “Yeah, I cried,” Parker said after receiving the news from Hall chair Jane Forbes Clark.

Dec 8, 2024 · The National Baseball Hall of Fame today announced that former Pirates outfielder Dave Parker has been voted into the Hall of Fame. The announcement was made by Josh Rawitch, President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, at the Baseball Winter Meetings in Dallas, TX.

Dec 13, 2024 · On Sunday night, over 25 years of waiting came to an end for a former baseball icon. Dave Parker is a Hall of Famer and is on his way to Cooperstown.

Dec 8, 2024 · He previously worked for The New York Times, covering the Mets (2000-2001) and Yankees (2002-2009) and serving as national baseball columnist from 2010 to 2023.

Dec 9, 2024 · Thirty-three years after his last game and 12 years after a tremor in his right hand eventually led to a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, Dave Parker is a Hall of Famer. Allen and Parker...

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